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We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

—Publilius Syrus

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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

—Kevin Kelly

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Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

—David Hume

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We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

—Meryl Streep

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I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

—Michael Patrick King

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

—Steve Jobs

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

—Sam Donaldson

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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

—Amy Vanderbilt

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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

—Jane Austen

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

—Tom Peters

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

—Sir Robert Hutchinson

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